Hello, this is A.J. Welcome to the Effortless English Podcast.

Now, today is going to be a spontaneous podcast, another spontaneous podcast.

That means I will talk, not read at all.

I'll just be talking and talking.

Then I'll send this to a company and they will transcribe it so you can read the text.

But I think this is a more natural way for you to practice English.

You can listen to my podcast and read my blog and hear a lot more kind of spontaneous English

which of course is exactly the kind of English we use you know in normal conversations.

In normal conversations we don't write down what we're going to say first and then read

it. We just talk and we all do this in our native languages and the thing is that

this kind of spontaneous speech, spontaneous language, is quite different than the language we find in textbooks.

You know, it's the same in Spanish. I struggle with this with Spanish

because most of the Spanish I find, unfortunately, is not spontaneous.

It's not really natural conversational Spanish.

Most of the Spanish I can find.

It's either books, you know, from books, and like audio books, for example, or audio articles.

So someone has written an article first, and then they're reading it.

So I do get to hear the Spanish and it certainly it helps me,

but it's not really kind of a natural conversational style of Spanish.

So when I go to Mexico or Honduras or Guatemala, I am overwhelmed and I can't really quite understand what people are saying.

Another problem I have,

this maybe it's just me, maybe just my personal problem,

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